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Darth Chaltab

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#186688
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Why I hate "The Incredibles"
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Heh, that's pretty funny, although something of a kick in the groin to people expecting the villain to show all his cards. Make the hero actually do some work?! Heaven forbid.

I'm having a helluva time trying to find picutres of Elastigirl in her "Golden Age" costume, by the way. Pretty hot. Any help would be appreciated.


I don't think Elastigirl existed in the golden age...

http://www.angelfire.com/ar/hellUSA/elastigirl.jpg
http://spider-bob.com/heroes/dc/images/Elastigirl01.jpg

Is this the costume you meant?
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#186626
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Scientific Innacuracies in Sci-Fi
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186626/action/topic#186626
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
The ship computer synthesises explosions for the benefit of the pilot.


Yeah, because we know they're not really dead until they hear an "earth-shattering kaboom!"


Think how much you use sound to get by on a daily basis, or, to put it in more contextual terms, when playing a strenous video game. Think how much harder some games would be to play if you couldn't here your enemies sneaking up near you... Like Resident Evil, for instance. It's not just the explosions either; the engine sounds of the TIEs are supposedly sythesized as well to let pilots know they are near by.
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#186605
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Scientific Innacuracies in Sci-Fi
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186605/action/topic#186605
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Or explosions going "boom" in space in Star Wars ...

The ship computer synthesises explosions for the benefit of the pilot.



Here's one I've wondered about. In "Innerspace", how does Dennis Quaid drink the alcohol, or the shrunken bad guys breath? The body works by elements and particles being a particular size, as so to pass through membranes or join other chemicals.


Yeah. Any time a character is shrunk there are a lot of scientific problems. WHere does the matter go? If their atoms are simply compressed, then the would retain the same weight. Matter can't be destroyed, and if it was converted into energy, there would be a big boom. So how do you shrink something without magic or other planes of reality being involved? It's impossible for science alone to explain that one.
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#186582
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Wing Commander - Privateer
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186582/action/topic#186582
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Originally posted by: RRS-1980
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
...The gross scientific innacuracies of the movie that even a 12-year-old could detect.

Then how can you like Star Wars?



At least Star Wars doesn't have them using MACHINE GUNS in OUTER SPACE. Besides, there has been an explanation for pretty much everything Star Wars deviates from physics on. They don't really fire lasers, they are bursts of charged gas; Hyperspace is another dimension where matter can travel faster than light; there is a forcefield that keeps the air from blasting out of the open docking bays; sound doesn't really travel in space--the comuter synthesises the noises for the benefit of pilots.
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#186475
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Jack Thompson as a parent.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186475/action/topic#186475
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This is hardly news Sean. Though I can't imagine how repressed his kids are.

For the uninformed, Jack Thompson is a reactionary lawyer from Florida who seems to think that all video games are murder simulators, and that playing them for any reason other than to prove they are evil makes you a bad person. He's mostly just an attention vacuum.

And in that trend, most of nature abhors him.
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#186455
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Why I hate "The Incredibles"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186455/action/topic#186455
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An extremely homophobic person maybe, but other than that...

But a lot of the Incredibles is taking a jab at serious issues in modern society. Like when Bob says "They keep inventing new ways to celebrate mediocrity!" So much of that is true in the real world, like the ninties and "Results based education" that was more about Self Esteem than actually teaching kids things.
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#186378
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Why I hate "The Incredibles"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186378/action/topic#186378
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Of course he doesn't have any reguard for life. He's a VILLAIN. He's supposed to be evil.

Syndrome was a great villain BECAUSE he was so intense. He was the scorned nerd who came back for revenge; he is US, only pure evil. That's what makes him great... Plus his lines were great. "Oh-ho, this is just TOO GOOD!" where he says it like a hill-billy, or the "And when everyone is Super... NO ONE will be."

As for getting you copies of Disney films not in stores, sorry, but this forum is not for bootlegging.